Left ventricular functional recovery of infarcted and remote myocardium after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (METOCARD-CNIC randomized clinical trial substudy)

Table 4 The effect of left ventricular (LV) remodeling on infarct and remote zone strain

	Infarct zone circumferential strain (%)				Remote zone circumferential strain (%)
	1 week	6 months	MD [95% CI]	P-value*	1 week	6 months	MD [95% CI]	P-value*
LV remodeling (N = 52)	− 7.6 ± 8.2	−12.6 ± 9.4	−5.0 [−6.6 to − 3.4]	< 0.001	− 20.2 ± 3.7	−19.1 ± 3.7	1.1 [0.1 to 2.1]	0.036
No LV remodeling (N = 139)	−9.0 ± 9.3	−15.1 ± 7.3	−6.2 [− 7.4 to − 4.9]	< 0.001	−19.2 ± 6.5	− 19.3 ± 4.0	0.0 [− 1.0 to 1.0]	0.991
MD [95% CI]	1.3 [−1.6 to 4.2]	2.5 [−0.4 to 5.4]			−1.0 [− 2.8 to 0.9]	0.1 [− 1.1 to 1.4]
P-value†	0.366	0.087			0.317	0.822

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